Turbulence Mitigation for Aircraft in Urban Environments

Abstract

The PI and collaborators were interested in testing the hypothesized advantage of sensing flow disturbance before initiating an inertial response. The PI successfully completed flight trails in wind tunnels and in atmospheric turbulence. Their mitigation system reduced aircraft roll by up to 50 . In addition to the final report, the PI has 10 publications and/or conference proceedings as a result of the grant.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 02, 2018
Accession Number
AD1048240

Entities

People

  • Simon C Watkins

Organizations

  • RMIT University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Boundary Layer
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flight Paths
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Ground Control Stations
  • Measurement
  • Micro Air Vehicles
  • Turbulence
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.